My understanding is that they use up a lot of water and electricity, driving costs up for local residents.
Datacenters are asking for tax breaks because they "contribute back to the local economy". In most cases however, the added jobs are mostly temporary (construction)
In short, they're asking residents to pay for some short-term jobs and long-term
utility price increases. A bad deal if you ask me
Maybe it would be valuable to have an anonymous "onboarding" experience where people choose the genres they like or dislike, and then the people choosing the book can be informed a summary of the groups preferences.
Also an anonymous thumbs up/down after the book is read could help the group choose a better next book
This is a book club. People know each other and their preferences. Also, it would be rather clear if people liked the book or not. Those are functions better left to the conversation or at least, no sense in making them anonymous.
For online discussions, it might be convenient to have a shared board with questions about the book, maybe scoreboard to rate by aspects and do a final grate, but those are fancies, not essential for facilitating the discussion.
I've gotten your deckboxes a few times. They work great, especially for games with factions with smaller decks that don't need a full Magic-sized deckbox.
Like I've got them for each character's deck in Bullet, and each team in Baseball Highlights 2045. I have a few for my KeyForge decks as well.
I got a set probably a decade+ back of something that looks pretty similar - a guy who was just experimenting at his workplace worked up a small-batch production method. Can't recall what he called them though to search up. Two epoxy bulbs around a penny is an amazing token weight, and they stick to each other so you can make stacks up to 5 without much trouble.
I wound up with two generic sets (geometric shapes for ranked counters, with N points on the shape, plus a set that's good for +1, -1, and damage counters) and I've been using them ad-hoc for misc games on and off since.
Pretty cool, though I am a little disappointed there’s no Euro-style worker placement game where players compete to build the best gourmet burger restaurant!
Every euro I've ever played has been viciously competitive! Can't tell you how many arguments we'd get into over the wood pile in Agricola! All in good fun though!
There are those holes that briefly hold your ball, and then something may or may not happen, like getting the ball back with extra kick, getting multiple balls, or having the ball launched on a precise trajectory that makes it fly exactly between your paddles. There is a decision point there, and the decision is made by a program (software or purely hardware). That program is a system that could force defeat.
Yeah... No... You are correct in that there are rules on whether you get an extra ball it a multi ball. But those rules are known and don't happen randomly. Yes there are occasionally a random event, but those are rare.
As far as launching the ball, that is generally also a known factor. There are other variables in play, but none have to do with the game deciding to defeat you or not.
Love it! I looked into doing something similar years ago. I had also considered selling boxes/redesigned vacuum formed inserts since a lot of board games don't come with them, or they are minimally designed.
Please keep in mind that games without gameplay-enhancing in app purchases want you addicted as much as possible.
The reason is that they profit with the ones that pay a lot, and those players only stay if there are many others that play too.
Then there are the ones that put advertising inside the games as an alternative way of making money. Same thing...
Games that have no in app purchases of any kind and no DLCs either are the best, because they have designed the game without profit being a factor in gameplay.
I do see your point, the problem is that most free-to-play games do have in-game purchases, and the impact on the gameplay is somewhat discussable since each game have their own mechanics that they keep changing it in each update...
Datacenters are asking for tax breaks because they "contribute back to the local economy". In most cases however, the added jobs are mostly temporary (construction)
In short, they're asking residents to pay for some short-term jobs and long-term utility price increases. A bad deal if you ask me